Monday, June 13, 2011
Daily Logs
Please post your daily logs here as a follow up reply. You may create and link to a movie, post pictures with captions, write a poem, write a narrative, write a list, link to a PowerPoint or almost any other creative media production you can think of in order to describe what went on in class the day you kept the log!
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Hmmm, no media option here. Need to rethink this.
ReplyDeleteDAILY LOG June 14, 2011
ReplyDeleteJeanne shared Pink and Say (Patricia Polacco), where we met Pinkus Aylee (Pink), Sheldon Curtis (Say), and Moe Moe Bay (Pink's mother). These young men became friends after Pink rescued Say from a field where he lay injured and unable to move. Moe Moe Bay was the loving mother who nursed Say back to health. There were few dry eyes in the room as we ended the story of the young man who touched the hand of Abraham Lincoln.
Professional Discussion Groups met and assigned readings/summaries to group members.
Tamara read after-lunch poetry and had us begin re-writing our Critical Incident papers to a different genre. The process today was to consider a "narrative poem" for the alternate genre.
"HOMEWORK" for today includes:
* Read chapter ONE in THE ART OF INQUIRY as we begin to consider a research question
* Read for the Professional Discussion Group
* Bring five (5) artifacts/memento special to you and your family
* Bring a hard copy of your Critical Incident paper on Wednesday.
Today's big success: everyone now has their blogspot up and ready for use! Shawna got each of our blogspots posted to the main page, making it considerably easier to read and follow each others' writings as we go through the rest of our time together!
***We miss you, Jeannine! Hurry Back!***
Daily Log- June 15, 2011
ReplyDeleteShawna read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox, illustrated by Julie Vivas. This was the story of a young boy with a very long name who lives near a retirement home. He is friends with many people at the home, but his favorite is 96-year-old Miss Nancy. Everyone says that she has lost her memory and he is determined to help her find it. He collects a number of objects including an egg and a marionette and brings them to her. These simple items help to bring back her past and the story ends with many smiles.
Afterwards we were asked to use the five items that we brought to class to inspire us during sacred writing time. After an hour we took a quick break then came back for morning meeting and elbow groups.
We met with out Professional Discussion Groups to share ideas about the various chapters.
After lunch Tamara led us through another poetry exercise on metaphor. Today we learned the form (X’s adjective + Y). Vanilla rain and Christmas breath, rainbow dreams and liquid feet. We were asked to include some of these metaphors in our Critical Teaching Moment Narrative.
Debbie Low was today’s lesson presenter. She is a kindergarten teacher at Kealakehe Elementary and she taught us about Revision using authors as mentors. She focused her lesson around Owl Moon, using Jane Yolen’s descriptive sentence starters as examples. We wrote a “small moment” using this technique.
At the end of the day Shawna and Debbie talked about their teacher research questions and we discussed chapter one of The Art of Inquiry.
HW – Read Chp. 5 Art of Inquiry
Bring revised critical incident
Tamara gave a lesson onMetaphors; X of Y. Her of template consists of feelings,sounds,rhythms. It was recommended that we start with
ReplyDeleteWe revised our writing to come up with our own story from which we could come up with our metaphors.
6/16/11
ReplyDeleteTamara started our day off by inviting and welcoming us with a beautiful chant.
Jeanne introduced sacred writing time by presenting The Red Book, a ‘wordless’ book, and then interpretations of the story we shared. We used our sacred writing time to create our own wordless books, using a variety of interesting book templates and drawing supplies. Personally speaking, I can’t believe we had as much time as we usually do for sacred writing! While it always flies by quickly, today it was in warp speed! The elbow groups then shared their wordless books, with each group member sharing their interpretation of the story.
As the wordless books were so creative, everyone was given the opportunity to share with the class, and we were treated to the creativity of Beatrice’s story of Hawaiian ancestry, Colleen’s story of the boy who swam with the dolphin, Kristi’s story of her mother’s boogie boarding mishap, Robin’s story of a little boy’s imaginative adventures, Tamara’s surprising starfish adventure, Jeanne’s balloon story, and Marissa’s non-fiction water cycle story. Great fun!
Robin reminded us all of yesterdays activity with a well summarized Learning Log of the activities we engaged in on Wednesday. Thanks for the job well done Robin!
Shawna followed up with a reminder of assignments and directions for the field trip tomorrow. I can’t wait! I want to express a heartfelt thank you to Shawna, Tamara, and Jeanne for the wonderful job you are doing – Mahalo!
After break we meet with our groups for professional discussions on the book we are reading. Our group decided to read our chapters this week and then share next week.
Following lunch we had a poetry lesson lead by Tamara. She is masterful at making metaphors malleable and manageable. (Too bad she isn’t teaching alliteration.) Today’s lesson was on how to personify metaphors using the (X is Y -- X = Y) model. An example of this model is, “that man is a pig” becomes “that pig” referencing the man. She also treated us to some beautiful poetry, her own and from Bamboo Ridge.
I know we all look forward to your lessons and the poetry you share Tamara.
The poetry lesson was followed by Shawna’s editing lesson. First Shawna led a discussion of the difference between revision and editing to make sure the lesson objective was clear. Next she used a jigsaw method to demonstrate how we could teach (review) editing strategies. She distributed picture books that provided examples of common editing errors, and each elbow group reviewed their book and created a poster of the editing rules it covered. These were then shared with the group.
We ended the day by meeting with peers we hadn’t met with to discuss chapter 5 of The Art of Classroom Inquiry. My discussion with Robin, Patti, and Kristi was so enjoyable. What great educators these women are!
We ended the day with final reminders of our activities tomorrow – see you all then!
Friday, June 17 Daily Log
ReplyDeleteI posted a You Tube video to my blog...unfortunately I think the DOE website will block it while we are at school. So the highlights of Friday were:
*Listening to the history of Kaloko-Honokohau Harber at the ranger station
*Time to explore the beautfy of the park
*Time to write
*Beth sharing a creative Daily Log using picture metaphors (example a Genie in a bottle represented Jeanne)
*Beatrice and friends sharing songs on the Ukulele about Kona
*Fellowship with each other
Check out my You Tube slideshow at home if we cannot get it to work at school!
Daily Learning Log
ReplyDeleteJune 20, 2011
8:30 Huaka’i
8:30-9:30 Sacred Writing Time
-Tamara shared a poetry lesson on creating a poem based on a Wahi Pana (A Celebrated Place). We used personification and alliteration within the poem. A handful of students shared their poems aloud to the whole class.
9:30-10:00 -Shawna shared her iMovie learning log from Friday’s field trip to Kaloko Honokohau National Historical Park. Very impressive.
-Jeanne shared how to make a teeny writing book.
10:00-10:15 Break
-Jessica and Marissa provided some really yummy snacks. Thanks, ladies!
10:15-12:00 Lesson
-Jeanne shared her lesson on Digital Story Telling using Animoto.com. Educators can subscribe for free and use it in their classrooms. Everyone worked diligently on uploading pictures and videos and created some really awesome slideshow movies.
12:00-12:35 Lunch
12:35-12:45 Poetry
-Tamara did a lesson focusing on oxymoron. Examples: quiet thundering waves, stomping tiptoe, overflowing emptiness, blinding darkness.
12:45-2:15 Teacher Lesson: Colleen
-Colleen did an art lesson on blind contoured drawing. First we were not to look at our paper and draw our hand (or a nearby object) with only one line. Then we were to do a second drawing where we could look at the paper. We reflected on how we felt after doing each drawing.
2:15-2:20 Posted feedback to Colleen’s lesson
2:20-3:45 Teacher Lesson: Jessie
- Jessie did a lesson on opinion. She focused her lesson on the story “The Little Mouse the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear” and we had to write an opinion if there was a bear in the story or not.
3:45-3:50 Posted feedback to Jessie’s lesson
Coaching For Future Lessons
6/21 Daily Log
ReplyDeleteby Marissa Rosenbloom
Jeanne read book titled Help about a kid trying to learn how to read. Then she read the Tickle Tree, which was about the power of imagination.
She then invited us to write, trying to incorporate alliteration and rhyme in our writing.
In my elbow group Jessica shared a poem she made called the Farmer's Tale and Tamara wrote a piece about dreams.
Kristi shared Monday's daily log.
Jeanne taught us how to make chopstick, pencil, fork books.
We met with our Professional Reading Groups
Welcome Back Jeannine
We were happy to see Jeannine back and smiling and she taught us how to write an annotated bibliography.
Tamara taught us another way of using metaphors called synesthesia, using X's texture, scent, or flavor + X's sound.
raspberry crash
honeysuckle hum
morphine moan
Kristi gave her lesson using Ish
Robin gave her lesson using Flotsom
Pau Hana!!
Thursday Log:
ReplyDeleteWelcome Chant led by Tamara
Book Sharing: Jeanne read Pele and Poli’ahu (A Tale of Fire and Ice) Retold by Malia Collins
Writing Prompt: We were asked to write a legend of our own or one that you already know about.
Sacred Writing Time followed by Elbow Group Sharing
Invitation Information Sharing and Sending Time
Research Question Worktime
Visit to the Holualoa Elem school to take a gallery walk and observe their summer art/writing/gardening class that Debbie Lowe has been working with.
Lunch followed by Poetry-Sharing of Poetry byTamara & (similes) (others we’ve already discussed are now posted on Tamara’s blog
Teacher Lesson 1 by Beth- “Finding your Voice” using book Voices by Anthony Browne. First activity was a great listening lesson for analyzing word choices, tones, clues about personality and physical appearances. Jessie scribed and Colleen used her artistic skills to bring to life the characters we conjured up from their voices and our interpretations and descriptions. Second activity was individual writing of 3 different emotions: mad talk, soft talk, fast talk, and analyzing devices you used in each (sentence structure, word choices, tone etc.) Dramatizations were done by Robin and Jessica to demonstrate all the devices that come into play when acting. (Voices, Body Language & gestures etc.) Great jobs by our own Sarah Bernhardts!
Teacher Lesson 2 by Cecilia—“Small Moments” lesson following sharing of A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams. Cecilia led us through the process she uses with K in writing workshop. She set stage for her story starting with story sketches and then interactively writing her story. After lesson we wrote our own small moment stories & shared them with our elbow group. Great Day!
City of Refuge
ReplyDeleteMore accurate Sacred Hill
Water to cleanse
A second chance at life.
Makana, a gift for remembrance
Carefully placed under watchful eyes
A song, a joyful noise
Given from the heart.
Wandering content, we learned
To fish, with nets
To weave, with leaves
To listen, with mind and heart and spirit.
At last our sacred writing time
A group effort,
A solitary memorial
A wonderful ending to a wonderful day!
Daily Log: Monday June 27
ReplyDeleteFirst we chanted our morning oli
Tamara read a love poem by Cathy Song and her own poem “Chicken Feet” about her beloved pet, Samantha
We were invited to write using these as a prompt.
Jessica Garcia shared an inspired poem reflecting upon the outing at the City of Refuge
Our elbow groups met and showcased their work. We hope that Tamara’s found poem will preface our Lehua anthology.
Shawna helped us register for the E-Anthology
Jeannine shared a lesson that asked us to look critically at spelling, punctuation, and homophones in our final products.
LUNCH
Tamara shared a poem “Shrinking the Uterus”
Doreen shared a culturally significant lesson that established a sense of place and identity intended for her fourth graders. Multi-media, oral stimulation, and hands on activities were all shared.
Marissa taught us how to construct a Rhetorical Precis: a specific summary designed to outline argument, evidence, purpose, and audience.
Jessica shared her leftover cheese :)